Kriyā

Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Italic title Template:Transliteration (Template:Langx) most commonly refers to a "completed action", technique or practice within a yoga discipline meant to achieve a specific result.

Etymology

Template:Transliteration is a Sanskrit term, derived from the Sanskrit root Template:Transliteration, meaning 'to do'. Template:Transliteration means 'action, deed, effort'. The word karma is also derived from the Sanskrit root Template:IAST (Template:Transliteration) {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, meaning 'to do, make, perform, accomplish, cause, effect, prepare, undertake'.<ref name=mmw>see:

• kṛ, कृ Monier Monier-Williams, Monier Williams Sanskrit–English Dictionary (2008 revision), pp. 300–301;
• Carl Cappeller (1999), Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, Etymological and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages, Asian Educational Services, Template:ISBN</ref><ref>Mulla & Krishnan (2009), "Do Karma-Yogis Make Better Leaders? Exploring the Relationship between the Leader's Karma-Yoga and Transformational Leadership", Journal of Human Values, 15(2), pp. 167–183</ref> Karma is related to the verbal Proto-Indo-European root {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} 'to make, form'.<ref>John Algeo and Thomas Pyles (2010), The Origins and Development of the English Language, 6th Edition, Template:ISBN, pp. 54–55</ref>

The root Template:Transliteration (Template:Transliteration) is common in ancient Sanskrit literature, and it is relied upon to explain ideas in Rigveda, other Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, and the Hindu epics.<ref name=mmw/><ref>See Rigveda 9.69.5, 10.159.4, 10.95.2, Svetâsvatara Upanishad 2.7.v.1, Mahabharata 1.5141, etc.</ref>

Practices

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2.1 defines three types of Template:Transliteration, namely tapas (ascetic devotion), svadhyaya (study of the self or the scriptures), and Template:Transliteration (devotion or surrender to higher consciousness).

The yogic purifications or shatkarmas are sometimes called the Shatkriyas ("the six actions").<ref name="YogaMag">Shatkarmas – Cleansing Techniques Template:Webarchive, in Yoga Magazine, a publication of Bihar School of Yoga</ref>

The Kriya Yoga school, established by Yogananda, is centered on pranayama techniques.